Where does “kolmiloikka” come from?
kolmiloikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikka, from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.
kolmiloikka (Finnish): triple jump
Ancestry of “kolmiloikka”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | loikka | A leap |
| 2 | Finnish | loikata | To leap; To defect |
| 3 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | — |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | |